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Example sentences for "tangles"

Lexicographically close words:
tangibility; tangible; tangibly; tangle; tangled; tangling; tango; tangs; tangy; tani
  1. I have not done that because this rational procedure inverts the natural order of things and develops all kinds of theoretical tangles and pseudo-problems.

  2. It is unnecessary to quote more of the speeches in Heaven; they are tangles of Scriptural phrase, from which there can be extracted neither good divinity nor good humanity.

  3. Blackberry, honey locust, osage orange, and prickly ash formed in places thorny tangles almost impenetrable to humans.

  4. Also, many rats lived beyond the limits of the woodland proper, in such places as deserted buildings, thickets, roadside hedges, and tangles of exposed tree roots along cut banks of gullies.

  5. Tangles of green weed floated on the surface, which, in places, seemed to be filmed over with oily colours.

  6. When one of these tangles is unravelled before our eyes we marvel at the simplicity of its mechanism, we think we understand, we make generalities, we prepare to open neighbouring mysteries with the same key: illusion.

  7. Thus the troops at the Gap got out during the night, some running over the huge rocks and heavy wood tangles along the crest, by torch-light, to their comrades, some going west by easier ways.

  8. His right was covered to some extent by swamp lands and forest tangles almost as formidable as the approach towards his left.

  9. While outward, over sand-slopes wet, The lamp flashed down its yellow jet On the long wash of waves, with red and green Tangles of weltering weed through the white foam-wreaths seen.

  10. Coarse seaweed was growing in irregular masses on one side of the rock; and where its matted tangles rose above the yellow line, was something black, something longish, curved, not very large.

  11. Only the tangles of seaweed rose black against the sand, which had dried up by now.

  12. That plant Shall never wave its tangles lightly and softly As a queen's languid and imperial arm.

  13. At the base of the bluff, and stretching away to the north and west were swamps and forests intersected by deep sloughs, overhung with dense tangles of vines and cane-brakes.

  14. To add to the peril of the crossing, the sandbar was strewn with tangles of undergrowth and fallen trees, and the Confederate shells and bullets were raining upon the ground.

  15. The weary troops looked upon the heavy tangles of fallen timber and dense undergrowth with a sense of isolation.

  16. The advent of April came like a revelation of divine beauty to the little village nestled in the "coombe," and garlanded it from summit to base with tangles of festal flowers.

  17. Here he loves to hide in such low, briery, bushy tangles as the chat and catbird choose.

  18. So successful was this experiment, that the hempen tangles are now regarded as an essential adjunct to the dredge, and nearly as important as the dredge itself, and when the ground is too rough for using the dredge, the tangles alone are used.

  19. He gets himself into tangles from which there seems no possible escape, only to extricate himself with the airiest of touches.

  20. I lost all sense of ownership of my face in the tangles of his beard.

  21. I suppose there are a few people living here who long to escape from it when the calendar calls Spring; to kiss their faces to the grass; to lose their tired souls in tangles of green shade.

  22. They passed great tangles of wild grapes that scented the air, here and there an island shimmering with the bloom of blueberries.

  23. Beyond the high box borders the gay October roses bent toward her beneath a light wind, and in the square beds tangles of summer plants still flowered untouched by frost.

  24. And suddenly he was fighting in the tangles of the Wilderness, crouching behind a charred oak stump, while he loaded and fired at the little puffs of smoke that rose from the undergrowth beyond.

  25. There were fallen trunks with spreading branches to be scrambled over, and tangles of thorny canes, but he was cheered by signs that somebody had passed on ahead of him not long before.

  26. Darkness and the Cyclopean setting gave more menace than intimacy to the dim tangles of avenues and parkways.

  27. Botanical splendors from exotic worlds rioted in orderly tangles of aromatic greenery, with sculpture of glass, marble and the noble metals glinting like pale ghosts against the darker masses.

  28. Then on hands and knees I pursued and devoured numbers of the unpalatable crabs that scuttled to hiding under slimy tangles of sea weed.

  29. Through dense tangles of palm and fern, mangrove and moss I was borne in a rough hammock of fiber.

  30. One of the three species of maples that I have seen is only a bush that makes tangles on the banks of the rivers.

  31. Though only a few inches long, so intense is his fiery vigor and restlessness, he stirs every grove with wild life, and makes himself more important than the great bears that shuffle through the berry tangles beneath him.

  32. It was one mass of great sea-tangles like a grove, which prevented me judging of its nature, but in shape and size it bore some likeness to a vessel's hull.

  33. Well, just at the last moment there came a sudden flush of current, dredging through the tangles like a wave.

  34. In November and December opossums could be trapped most effectively by making sets in or near grapevine tangles where the animals were attracted by the abundant ripe fruits.

  35. On a few occasions short, well worn trails made by opossums were found, from dens to near-by feeding areas where grape tangles provided an abundant and readily available food source over periods of weeks.

  36. Wild grape (Vitis vulpina) is an abundant woodland vine on the area and often forms dense tangles both in deep woods and in edge situations.

  37. Instead he struck off to the left, avoiding that easy path, choosing to cross through tangles which had once been gardens or through open fields.

  38. They were in a room some eight or nine feet long, the violet light showing up well tangles of equipment hanging from pegs on the walls, a pile of small cylinders on the floor.

  39. One ray of sunlight fell among the tangles of her golden hair, and glowed like a halo above the marble-white brow.

  40. They are too busy with the tangles of some philanthropic Gordian knot, to stretch out a helping hand to the sufferer at their sides.

  41. Then she bathed her face and combed the tangles out of her hair.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tangles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.